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- ** tverybod^ ^^HIS>APElHlS^ ^ DEVOTED TO THE / " IMTEKKSTS O F UL ^ THE PEOPLE. VOLTIP-NO." 50. WOMAN r__ ; ^ ? WRITES LETTER 1 TO GOVERNOR J ??? t Urges that Sentence of Alvin J Mansel be Commuted to prr- Som? Cesser Punishment T ~ ~ P_ SEEKS MERCY FOR MOBMEN Pardon Commissioner Sink, asks Woman to Supply Him with 9Additional Details Raleigh, Dec. IJU-The cause" of Alvin Mansel. Negro, who is sentenced _to_die in the electric _ chair here on January 13, followk __ing_his_ conviction of an attackF" upon a while woman whu lives ~ near Asbeville, is tyeing pleaded by the man's victim. In a~letTer to Governor Mc-| Q Lean, she pleads that Mansel's ^ sentence be commuted to some i ) other punishment, although she ? \ insists that Mansel undoubtedly p is the guilty party. |r r Sink Seeks facts I* 3 I v P&rdon Commissioner H. e I -Hoyle Siitfk ^has replied to the s W woman's letter, asking that she & write in detail "exactly why you ? take this attitude," which the 1 L commissioner describes as "ex-L I ceedir.gly unusual".- jv I v While the major portion of(e * the woman's leter is taken up wjth pleas for those convicted * i of mob violence in storming "the ( f luuiiI^ jail, lliu wointt.fi urgently'e I pleads for the life of the Negro. |a ^ The lotter whieh was-made^ub 11 B lie to-day, after he had learned 11 By that-dispatches from Asheville'r B ? told of it having been written as r B .follows:- I o H? "Dear Governor:? ??:? | ? "I want to Write you a few } lines to" try in my wea>k way to " tell you my worries that I am g having to endure. I was the un- t fortunate white woman thatI was criminally insulted in Ashe- s r-^viile, N. G., on the morning of ? I? ^September 19, 1925, and I feel,1 BjLlthat T ran never see any more j. "peace through life unless I can f* r beg" for the Tjc$s thaT thought they were doing the right thing 7* ft when they went to the'jail after | ' I lf plead for the life of he Negro. I 1 Give him any kind of nunish- r M ment besides death. He is the c 1 right one as .sure as there i&-a-^ I God, but do please let me plead r ?for- his- fife:?Please don't kill F R him. Give him a life sentence t ?anything but death. jr "And, dear Governor, spare F the boys who st^od by for my j 7^ sake. There were so many who r went into the mob not knowing I what it would end in, so many I who had never been in ^anything j* before, and men who have got R, families to think of. Please da_ I let hie, if I may, plead for these poor men. Let thfem come back home, let them cojne back where the famailies will be complete * where their weary hearts can be at rest, and be as they were 1 J when all this took place. [ \one who-wonld be willing to fall i on their knees for the poor men 1 who were sentenced, .some to be f gone from home so long, 4II for h ??my aake. ? ^~ Pleads for Families SL "And then, too, think of the * good mothers and fathers whose ' ** hearts are almost bowed down 1 Continued on page aix. O Begin to-day?Ar / Wins in Our: Sfcfj 'PLEAD F. & A. Mi Asks for ir on , jM* REV. S. C. C^u.BELL, D. D. i The above is the likeness uf Rev. b I. C. Campbell whom many of us re- . lamhor its tbo gpv' Pr^irhpr of 1Q11- ' 916. Rev. "Campbell was born at Jewberry, S. G.f June 6, 1895, of ioor but industrious parents and was eared on the farm of Mr. W. H. i' tfmg,~ foiir miles from" Newberry. 1 Vhen a child he showed signs of lead < rship. After attending LaTce Stand chool, under such teachers as Miss ^ lamie Simmons, Miss Addie Miller, Irs. Floyd,_ Mrs., Lizzie Mance and 'rof. Sim Voung, all of Newberry : md who yet live, he entered the 1 uuuHirat menage ot 1(3 years and I /as licensed' to preach in 1911. He ( ntered Morris College and by the , ssistance of friends and especially he -encouragement of Dr. Starks he-* /as graduated from the College 1 'ourse with hon?^ in H|')n r>c u:? . arly struggles in the ministry onlj^j few know for they were many and ^ tard but by sheer force of will he las steadily forged ahead. Licensed at 16, ordained at 21, mar- ( ied at 22, accepted the . call to Mor- 1 is Chapel at 24 and to St. Paul at J ,9, wpgfl tha results ef hard wwrh and^gucli sludy. He Is rat6d^~aaT ie!ng one of the greatest pastors n the state. The church's, report for 1 lis first year at St. Paul shows that 1 ?* a n ? u,uuu.i3 was collected, 70. new mem- ' iers were added to the church, more | than 14,000 persons attended the | ervices, and plans are boing laid to iniah cancelling the church's debt'of" . ;4,ooo. i, Upon being asked the secret of lis suq<;gss^7 ftev. Campbell said:.1 'From my mother J inherited " the 1 rait not to give_ up until is done ( vhat you started, from my wife I earned never to talk much. I never attempt anything" without praying ' an?do myself and when I do pray j always help the Lord to answer my , irayer. In dealing with men I learn- j d from my school father Dr. Starks it Morris College that Courtesy, Caution?and Consideration mean nuch in making my plans for the t eopTe I always remember the poor, he aged and sick. I draw my ser-, non matter from daily life sJb the , teople can understand. Thu?^ the ^ ^ord sees that I am doing my best i or all the people and He always nakes up what I lack." ' G. W. 1 :HARLES EDWARD RUSSEL ADDRESSES BOSTON N. j\. A. C. P. MASS MEET- , ING $ith Moorfield Storey, Na;ional President of the N. A. A. t -n "..7. - -m:?- ? 1 01 * " y. r. pre-siuing-, ana^naries vard Russell, one of the Associ-j stion's founders, delivering an {1 iddress, the Boston Branch is 1 loldinfr a mass meeting on Dec, , L3th, to help raise the money ] or the $50,000 Legal Defenses Fund. The meeting is being M leld in Tremont Temple, one oF1 he largest auditoriums in the city. Another speaker at the I neeting is Rev. Cassius A. Ward!< f Ebenenc-er Baptist Church. 1 i Unparalled Oh Subscription C COLUMBIA. S. C., SAIiJBD. S FOR T.1 \SONS ME A SCHOOL DiihLNSL FUND SH PAIWD1 CTr V/Umi Li?i 1 u There are 40,000 Colored Chu After Collection Averaging Complete the Fund wit New York, Dec. 11?The $50,- si* 000 Del"ense ~Fuhdheing raised $2! Fy^ the N. A. A. C. P. oughi to J. be completed by Jan. 1, 1926, ac-,H. cording to a statement issued to-1?( day by Secretary, James Weldon La Johnson. ? ? O. ?Thero is indent neod for hanto-^h for the new Sweet trial*in De-~Ws Lroit begins the fnsl?week In Lioj January,?the Segregation case $51 is coming* up before the U. S. Pit Supreme Court, the "White Pri- S3C tna-ry" ease is scheduled. Mon- $32 ey is needed and needed now. the -The potentiaries of colored A- Ch< nericaris are overwhelming Ka when compared with the small ker sum of $30,000 needed to meet Clti the Garland Fund's offer of $15, Hie 300. There are. 40,000 colored -Dal churehes in the country. An C. after collection averaging one Roi Jullar from each church on a sin- the ?le Sunday would complete our 1 antiue Fund with 010,000* mil'- iliu plus.- 1 . ,of The present-status nf Hip T.p_ tral ?al Defense Fund is as follows: he Garland Fund _ .i:__ $5,000.00 tan Offered in addition __ 15,000.00 Ha Needed to meet ofTer _ 30,000-.00 Ho "..J pa\ Total $50,. 000.0(TMri Raised to Date 22,000.00 Wh Still to go 6,325. 82 Mr The Chicago Branch of the Mis NT. A. A. C. P. heads the list of Th< the week-s-contributions- with a Mis ?heck for $1,000; the Richmond, sCc VTa. Branch follows with $400; Wil The National Medical Associa- anc Treasurer, $185, and .the Red Sco Caps of the Pennsylvania tion in New York contributed, tioi >182 through a Co "m;.tt?'e~ con- fro PRIZE FOR SLOGAN ryes I or Boston, Dec. 9?The National me Equal Rights League, form its rig national headquarters oh Corn- dei hill, Boston, next door to where Gry brarrisorr' published his "Libera- sue tor" issues a call to all colored or < citizens in every community in pre the United States to severally cal hand themselves together to"luT start now a special racial move- Vm\ merit to secure rights in 1926 as De the sesqui-centennial year of the wit Declaration-of Independence: co!< The League urges the race t< /] show the country and the world tor an ^ability to co-operate, stand Afi together,, make intelligent de- ?>e, mand, resist denials with* spirjt pcr STTd""courage, and campaign for the protection which every other gec raceof Americans enjoy, formi- ^ ^ [lably on its own moral, mental sta years of an American Indepen- ^ ience which it helped win, and 50 years after slavery was wiped s OJ From the status books of the Na- the tion i tho A nation-wide beginning of a 5 months special crusade is re-Th< commended tor the first day 1926 as the*150th Anniversary Ne1 er?Everybody Wi orstest~Rcac ft# . AY. DEC. 19. 1925. ETINGS i FOR COLO OULD BE ] BY JANUARY 1 irches in ths Country. An 1 $1.00 a Church would h $10,000 Surplus ting of B. I. Gr&y, who gave J 5 of that sunt, E. P. Andrews, L. Taylor,^\V. H. Robinson, E. 1 Pulley and \V* C. Boyd. hthf-T largo giftq nf thp ivpplfdy Elliott Circle No. 199, C. F., Chicago, $100; Greensboro Ci Branch, $98.5flrftoffi itsonr-Goatesvill, Pa., (collec- j a) $82.05; Pueblo, (Jolr Bran., .; Miss Martha A. Jamison.-' tsburg, $50; Rochester Brai^. 1.40; Vernonia, Ore., E.anch, i; Emporia Branch, $3 i: and following each, save $25: I - I elsea Exchange Rank. N. V., tz & Yevy, N. Y., Mme. WalCo., Inch, Bachelor-Benedict b, Milncie, G. T. Haliburton,: :kniL-n, Ky? (collection, W. P. Lneyv-Ghicinna^iT- Q., Charles Flint, Los Angeles. . The Tie, Ga. Branch sent $20 'and Needles, uai. Branch $18! ["he Washington Branch of 1 If. A. a. r. has sent a list those contributing to^the Le-| aded by the Oldest i jiii.i bits'. Association and John ft. i wiviiia, eacn with $10') The| ward University stnrjfr.tn | e $25; N ? F WnnihorloRR, I sJVIcAdoo, Miss M P. Shadd,! lite field McKinley, Dr. and. s. Woodard, M. M. Harris,! is Otelia Cromwell, Nevali )mas, President of the Branch rS-Ctr R.-Sfmp^oTT, Proi. &~Mnf.7 >ok^ Mrs. Hastic and G?Gr-j? Ikinson. 'Cash' gave $23.50 n 1 Miner "Normal. School, $22. 2 ase giving $20:- Emmett Jv & ?tt, Dr. and Mrs. Wai field and' ^ C( s. Alice Williams. In adcji? i 102 givers of puffls rangifig r< m $1 to S10 are listed. ] zi ir, by union aTter-m'idnight,'a after-watch-meeting mass F etings for demand of the f hts of the Declaration T"-; icndence. If not feasible ev- ti - community is asked tp_ hold X h a meeting New Year's day evening; there to organize and n pare for a steady campaign';"1 S1 ling upon white America not! celebrate July 4th without ? zing ceased its violation of the I fin VP t inn r*f Tv.n~.~~?1 ' vx Xliucpcxiutjlice h regard to the ever loyal Dred citizens. \ rhe League offers another his- n( ical pamphlet on what the [ o-American did to make the ^laration and American Inde-je] idence a possibility and per-'}, nent success by writing to the p retary, Wm. Monroe Troiter, p lornhill, enclosing 6 cents in; mPs' ? - idi rhe League offers a prize for y best race sesqui-centennial a ?an sent it by Feb. 1st, 1926, . winning slogan and its au- oi r to be made public for Dou- tl iss-Lincoln Day, Feb. 14th. tc 3re win oe an impartial board ai judges to be announced for w Year's Day. ' ' ?_ ir ns--Look on p< .'-J _ 1* . . A 1 Our Offer c RED GIRLS TIME FO l THE STATE TO ACT Fairwold Industrial School 'is Handicapped by Small Plant Fire Adds to Need. J I i >2,000 IS APPROPRIATED iwo Teachers and Nineteen Girls Live in a Small Five -ri - tin, Rncin Building Establishment of a /state inustrial school lor Negro girls is : I mf l BiViir IB'1 HnjKI h I ; V^sgJ?*S K -MllM ~ PROF. W. St THOMA The above cut is iho Itkeness of stary. Past Master Thomas has ) years or more. lie has tilled 1 eereU -ry l'or 15 years or -more e was at this meeting unanimous iedinj? Col. E. J. Sawyer, (retin , ?i, -i i_? t ~ ? suuiiuitciiueu uy oames Kj. do- s Ler, executive, secretary of the : ate "LWf^of^uhIrc""we If are, in ? report issued concerining thel airwold Industrial School for ( 'egro girls. il The need uf such an Institu- r on has been augmented, Mr. } to/.er joints jQut^-hy-J.he. fire-ofL^: ist week, which destroyed the I lain building, leaving only a T nail five room building to care t G-n-inucd^on. page six.. " t. >r. j. h7goodwin7 e the day for tam The citizens of Tampa, Fla., s otified J. IL_Goodwin, M. D.,|j by wire Wednesday morning 3 lat he had been unanimously 1 ectod Orator of the-dDay Jan. ?t, 1926 for the Emancipation ] clcbration in the-metropolis ofj-t '? l Dr. Goodwin, wfren seen toay by a" representative of the eader, said: "L am going to ac- i ipt." 1 It is -an open secret through J jt the State of South Carolina, i aat Dr. Goodwin is a silver>ngucd orator, with few equals,( ad no superiors. , li He is one of Columbia's lead-| tg and oldest practising phy- f age 3 for partic ?n Page 3 1 ^ Subscribe ANI^ " AI)VI RTISK?( nr. 1 ^ rent, Social and General News. : 9C A?t (JP-V-; AILANT ' ? ' J vtONinus I 58TH ANNUAL.;.: COMMlJNIC^TfON^==: Public Meetings HeW kt Sidney Park C< M. E., and Bethel A. M. E. Churches ALL LODGES REPRESENTED?- ^ : W. H. Thomas, who h as been Acting Secretary was Electt , The Fifty-eighth Annual Com munication of the Most Worship- ?? ful Grand Lodge of South Carolina was held in Columbia, Dec. 8-9rayZb, with Dr. C. C. John _ | ? ^ . U ?* " A . ?y H i S, Grand Secretary. Prof. W. H Thomas, Grand Sec- ? ; been a very active Mason for ;he*position of Assistant Grand with satisfaction to the Order. ?ly elected Grand Societal G'suc- ? 3d.) ion, Grand Master^ The opening "meeting' was at - ' Sidney Park Q? M. E. church, rhe meeting was opened by the Jrand Master of . Ceremonies, nvocation by Rev. W. E. Farner, pastor of Sidney Park C. d. E. church. Music?Choir .... >y Hon. I^ S^L eevy!" *S^'lc' Mrs. ~ dargaret Smith, O. E. S? Inroduction of Grand Master by Continued on page 8. LECTED ORATOR OF PA, FLA., JAN. 1st sicians, the president of the Netro State Fair Assocition for 12 "ears, and a politician of unus- ???4-?4lal ability. - Tatnpa, Fla.v is otif of the ~-C 4.U. O il- - ai?csi. tuica ui cue ouuiu a^out four times the size of Coumbia."progressive and is .com posed of the finest of people n this country, they did themselves proud when they elected South Carolina's leading orator i stheir speaker. Again Florida will get a hance of seeing one of Carolfia's noblest.The Dr. will take care of the situation. ulars--Get busy . . i i ? ip f-mi?i?-^T-Vrran-n-Tr??~ 1 * T ^ f , - - :